Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enquiry. Then comes the question, which is the best and why? The Incandescent lamps with a carbon filament are easily destroyed, and there is more or less danger of fire on account of the amount of power used, which requires the larger wire to convey the electric fluid. The best carbon is the cylinder carbon, which has a much greater illuminating surface and consumes only one quarter as much power as the filament carbon, and gives four fold the amount of light for the same power, requiring at the same time a very small wire, thereby avoiding all danger from...
...consisted of an egg and a chop. "Now, Mr. Jones," he would say, "suppose you take the egg and I'll take the chop ; or do you take the chop and I will take the egg." The immense breakfast feeds of the university, which required a good deal of fluid to wash them down, were very properly rebuked by the sumptuary example of this worthy tutor.-London Society...
...lowest forms, as in the sponge, to the highest, as in man, is found a fluid which is the condition of vitality," said Dr. Sargent in his lecture on "The Blood" yesterday; "this in man is called blood." The lecturer explained the diseases which arise from the presence of too much blood or a deficiency of the same, and what effect either of these conditions has upon a person mentally or physically. Thus, one who studies very hard is likely to find his feet or hands cold even in a warm room, because he uses his blood to such...
Lithology. - Special subject : Fluid and Glass, including carbonic acid, inclusions. The General and Microscopic Characters of the Feldspars (continued). Dr. Wadsworth. Museum of Comparative Zoology, 3 P.M. Lectures at the Museum are open to teachers free...
Lithology. Special subject: Fluid and Glass, including carbonic acid inclusions. The General and Microscopic Characters of the Feldspars. Dr. Wadsworth. Museum of Comparative Zoology, 3 P. M. Lectures at the Museum are open to teachers free...